There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Live a courageous life.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Customers don't just buy a product - they switch from something else. And customers don't just leave a product - they switch to something else

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.